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deals with the characterization of the individual sediments

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Sedimentolgy

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Broad scientific discipline that encompasses the study of all kinds of sedimentary rocks

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SedPet

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Fundamental Constituents

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Terrigenous
Chemical/Biochemical
Carbonaceous
Authigenic

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  • These sediments are derived from terrestrial environment
  • From any rock type, including older sedimentary rocks
  • Minerals and rock frags transpo to depositional basins (extrabasinal origin)
  • Grains make up STS, CGL, SHL
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Terrigenous Constituents

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in terrigenous constituents, ___ are often found as a result of recombination and crystallization from parent rocks during
weathering

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Fe-Oxides and clay minerals

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  • generated at weathering sites by recombination and crystallization
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Secondary Minerals

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  • Derived from the precipitates
  • Soluble constituents e.g. calcite, gypsum
  • Examples are ooids and pellets
  • Includes limestones, cherts, evaporites,
    phosphorites
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Chemical/Biochemical

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chemical/biochem processes are seen within______

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Depositional Basins

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  • lead to extraction from basin water of soluble constituents
    • forms minerals such as Cal, Gy, Ap
    • forms calcareous and siliceous shells of organisms
    • precipitations aggregated into silt or sand-size grains
      • moved about by current and waves within depositional basins
      • ex. Carbonate ooids and pellets
    • makes up Intrabasinal seds
    • ex. LST, Chert, Evaporites Phosphorites
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Chemical/Biochemical Constituents

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Composed of carbonized residues of terrestrial plants, animals and petroleum bitumen

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Carbonaceous

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  • woody plant tissue residue
    -most constituents of coal
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Humic

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Spores, pollen, phyto- and zooplanktons, and macerated plant debris in water; constituents of cannel coals and oil shales

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Sapropelic

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solid, asphaltic residue form from petroleum through the loss of volatiles, oxidation and polymerization

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Bitumens

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-Minerals precipitated from pore waters within the sedimentary pile during burial diagenesis
- may include Silicate and Non silicate minerals
- can be added during burial but are never the dominant constituents of seds

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Authigenic (Secondary) Constituents

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Sed rocks cover about ? of the surface

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80%

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Average thickness of Earth’s sedimentary shell is ?km

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2.2

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the volume of sedimentary rocks of Earth’s crust is concentrated on the continents (?%surface)

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29

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About ? percent of sedimentary rocks occur on the continental shelf and continental slope (?% surface)

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13;14

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Approximately ? percent of the total volume of sedimentary rocks occurs on the floors of the oceans (?% surface)

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17;58

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rocks that make up Earth’s sedimentary shell are mainly shales ?, sandstones ?, and carbonate rocks ?%

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50;24;24

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T or F
relative volume of preserved shale per unit age has not changed significantly since early/ middle (Archean) Precambrian time.

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T

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Number of recycling times a seds has undergone is a *function of

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tectonic setting and the susceptibility of rocks to be weathered+eroded*

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Tectonic Setting (climate) governs

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weathering/erosion intensity

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Rock type determined relative ease of destruction. Ranking

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  • Evaporites
  • Limestones
  • Dolomites
  • Shales, Sandstones, Volcanogenic sediments
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*Evaporite rocks* are recycles upto **? times** in the GTS
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*carbonate rocks* are recycles upto **? times** in the GTS
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*SHL and STS* are recycles upto **? times** in the GTS
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Two possible models for sediment recycling
**Constant Mass Model** and **Linear Accumulation Model**
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- Early **degassing** - All **water along with acidic gasses** that can **react** with **early igneous rock** has been released - Since then, there haven't been any such degassing events which means no gasses, which meant that **no completely new sediment has been created** - Through time, seds have been recycled by erosion/destruction via metamorphism and recycling of CO2 and HC
**Constant Mass Model**
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- water, CO2 and HCl are **continuously degassed** from earth at a **linear rate** - **New** sedimentary rocks have thus **continued to form** through time by the breakdown of primary igneous rock. -the mass of sediments has **grown linearly through time** from zero to the currently existing mass.-
**Linear Accumulation Model**
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Sedimentary basins are now commonly classified in terms of
- (1) the **type of crust** on which the basins rest, - (2) the **position** of the basins with **respect to plate margins**, and - (3) for basins lying close to a plate margin, the **type of plate interactions occurring** during sedimentation
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The **rate of basin subsidence, together with rates of sea-level rise or fall,** determines the *????* – the space available at any time in which sediments can accumulate.
Accumulation Space
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**The size and shape of the basins**, which places *?????* that can accumulate.
limits on the volume of sediments
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- Terrestrial Rift Valleys - commonly associated with bimodal volcanism; - ex. Rio Grande Rift, NM
**Divergent Settings**
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- Incipient oceanic crust and flanked by young rifted - continental margins; ex. Red Sea
- **Proto-Oceanic Rift Troughs**
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- Mature rifted continental Margins in intraplate settings at continental oceanic interfaces
- *Continental Rise and Terraces*
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- Progradational sediment wedges formed of rifted continental margins
- *Continental embankments*
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Broad cratonic basins floored by fossil rifts in axial zones
- *Intracratonic Basins*
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- Stable cratons covered with thin laterally extensive sediment cover
- *Continental Platforms*
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Basins floored by oceanic crust formed at divergent plate boundaries unrelated to arc-trench systems (spreading still active).
Active ocean basins
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- Former failed rifts at high angles, which have been reactivated during convergent tectonics
Aulacogens
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rifts formed at high angles to continental margins, without preorogenic history
Impactogens
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Basins formed in intermontane settings following the cessation of local orogenic or taphrogenic activity
*Successor Basin*
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Sedimentary aprons and platforms formed in intraoceanic settings other than magmatic arcs.
Oceanic islands, aseismic ridges and plateaus:
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Basins floored by oceanic crust, which is neither spreading nor subducting (no active plate boundaries within or adjoining basin).
Dormant ocean basins:
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Deep troughs formed by subduction of oceanic lithosphere. Modern example: Chile Trench
Trenches:
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Local structural depressions developed on subduction complexes. Modern example: Central America Trench
Trench-slope basins:
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Basins within arc-trench gaps. Modern example: Sumatra
Forearc basins:
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Basins along arc platform, which includes superposed and overlapping volcanoes. Modern example: Lago de Nicaragua
Intraarc basins
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Oceanic basins behind intraoceanic magmatic arcs (including interarc basins between active and remnant arcs), and continental basins behind continental- margin magmatic arcs
Backarc basins:
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Foreland basins on continental sides of continental-margin arc-trench systems (formed by subduction-generated compression and/or collision). Modern example: Andes foothills
Retroarc foreland basins:
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Shrinking ocean basins caught between colliding continental margins and/or arc-trench systems, and ultimately subducted or deformed within suture belts. Modern example: Bay of Bengal
Remnant ocean basins:
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Foreland basins above rifted continental margins that have been pulled into subduction zones during crustal collisions (primary type of collision-related forelands). Modern example: Persian Gulf
Peripheral foreland basins:
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Basins formed and carried atop moving thrust sheets. Modern example: Peshawar Basin (Pakistan)
Piggyback basins:
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Basins formed among basement-cored uplifts in foreland settings. Modern example: Sierras Pampeanas basins (Argentina)
Foreland intermontane basins (broken forelands):
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Basins formed by extension along strike-slip fault systems. Modern example: Salton Sea (California)
Transtensional basins:
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Basins formed by compression along strike-slip fault systems. Modern example: Santa Barbara Basin (California) (foreland)
Transpressional basins:
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Basins formed by rotation of crustal blocks about vertical axes within strike-slip fault systems. Modern example: Western Aleutian forearc
Transrotational basins:
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Diverse basins formed within and on continental crust due to distant collisional processes. Modern example: Qaidam Basin (China)
Intracontinental wrench basins
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Former failed rifts at high angles to continental margins, which have been reactivated during convergent tectonics, so that they are at high angles to orogenic belts. Modern example: Mississippi embayment
Aulacogens:
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Rifts formed at high angles to orogenic belts, without preorogenic history (in contrast with aulacogens). Modern example: Baikal rift (Siberia) (distal)
Impactogens:
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Basins formed in intermontane settings following cessation of local orogenic or taphrogenic activity. Modern example: Southern Basin and Range (Arizona)
Successor basins:
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